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Polymer Chemistry

Reduced strain mechanochemical activation onset in microstructured materials†

Johanna J. Schwartz, ORCID logo ab   Reza Behrou, ORCID logo c   Bo Cao,a   Morgan Bassford,d   Ariana Mendible,d   Courtney Shaeffer,d   Andrew J. Boydston ORCID logo *abef  and  Nicholas Boechler ORCID logo *c  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
E-mail: aboydston@wisc.edu

b Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

c Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92161, USA
E-mail: nboechler@ucsd.edu

d Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

e Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA

f Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Abstract

In this study, we show that mechanochemical activation in responsive materials with designed, periodic microstructures can be achieved at lower applied strains than their bulk counterparts. Furthermore, by characterizing two responsive polymeric materials, we have developed a computational model capable of quantitatively predicting mechanochemical activation in geometrically complex structures.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C9PY01875A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Dec 2019
Accepted
03 Jan 2020
First published
06 Jan 2020

Polym. Chem., 2020,11, 1122-1126

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Reduced strain mechanochemical activation onset in microstructured materials

J. J. Schwartz, R. Behrou, B. Cao, M. Bassford, A. Mendible, C. Shaeffer, A. J. Boydston and N. Boechler, Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 1122 DOI: 10.1039/C9PY01875A

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